Penn State Arts & Design Research Incubator: Seeking to improve lives through applications of arts & design practices to health and the human experience

State College, PA
Joined November 2015
Faculty Fridays! Martin Holland’s research interests include the role of commemoration and memorial practices within the built environment, landscape history, landscape conservation and preservation, design pedagogy and the role of experiential learning within the design fields.
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Join us for this week’s talk, “Access Adds Up: How Cumulative Music Experiences Shape Lifelong Outcomes" by our ADRI Director, Bryan Nichols. When: Friday, October 16 from 12:00 noon - 12:50 pm Where: ADRI Lab - 14 Borland Building (corner of Curtin & Shortlidge Rd)
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Faculty Fridays! Bonnie Collura’s work can be seen in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Art Net, Flash Art, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Tema Celeste, Sculpture Magazine, and numerous print and on-line publications. #ArtsAndDesign
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Faculty Fridays! Joel Priddy is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist. His graphic novels include Pulpatoon: Pilgrimage, The Preposterous Voyages of IronHide Tom, and The Gift of the Magi. #DesignThinking #ArtsAndHealth #HigherEducation #ResearchImpact
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How do we connect to audiences across campus? This fall we’ll collaborate with the College of Engineering’s Learning Factory to design projects with engineers and artists addressing interdisciplinary needs in our work. Look for more soon! #DesignThinking #ArtsAndHealth
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Faculty Fridays! Affiliate faculty member Benay Gürsoy Toykoç's focus is on computational making, digital fabrication, craft theory, shape studies, basic design education, and cognitive studies of the design process. #ArtsAndDesign #Research #Innovation #InterdisciplinaryResearch
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Listen to our new podcast "Unmuted: Art, Embodiment, and the Rhythms of Science" on Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/65Q…
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Bill Doan co-authors work on drawing and mindfulness. Congrats Bill and colleagues!
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“CONTACT,” a video game that allows players to experience and learn about bacteria communities as if they were looking into a microscope: This immersive video game is developed by Andrew Hieronymi, associate professor in Penn State’s School of Visual Arts.
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Undergraduate student Joanna “Joey” Kieran Mendez is the labs project coordinator featured in the news at Penn State today. Go Joey!
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Director Bryan Nichols coauthors paper with lab members on cognitive features of musical skills in musicians:
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What else are ADRI publishing? Previous books include First There was Chaos by Graphic Design chair Joel Priddy. Bravo!
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We report a combination of musical instrument experience yields musical benefits later in life - now out in Frontiers in Psychology👏 🔗 Read the article: frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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From fall book release party in ADRI office, 14 Borland Bldg, a good time had by all!
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Coming soon in 2026! Unmuted—A new ADRI podcast mini-series from Penn State’s College of Arts & Architecture on the arts and why we need them.
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Our latest—cognitive correlates in musicianship skills in @FrontiersIn Psychology!
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Art prof and ADRI member Eduardo Navas and his SECOND book release of the year: Art, Media Design, and Postproduction. Congrats, Eduardo!
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Art prof and ADRI member Eduardo Navas releases not one—but TWO books this year. Check out the first! The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd edition
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